Just as Corpse Puppet Daoist had thought.
Chen Ku's strength had indeed long surpassed the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, enough to rival a quasi-sage.
Moreover, Chen Ku had deliberately suppressed himself and had not severed his corpse.
Otherwise, if he wished, severing his corpse would be effortless, and he could step straight into the quasi-sage realm.
Corpse Puppet Daoist finally understood that Chen Ku was far from as simple as he appeared.
He kept calling himself Bitter Dao, yet once he made a move, he was truly peerlessly fierce and overwhelmingly domineering.
Calling it playing the pig to eat the tiger could not have been more fitting.
However, even after realizing all this, Corpse Puppet Daoist showed no fear or concern.
Earlier, he had merely been too arrogant and had underestimated Chen Ku, allowing him to catch him off guard.
Besides, although he had coughed up blood earlier and appeared severely injured, for a quasi-sage expert, calming his qi and blood and recovering fully took no more than a thought.
"Hmph, boy, let me show you my true methods!"
"Let's see how you block this time!"
Corpse Puppet Daoist said in a deep voice.
Then, he suddenly let out a mighty roar.
"Corpse puppets, appear!"
His great sleeves billowed, releasing boundless tribulation light that spread for millions upon millions of miles, blazing brilliantly and terrifying beyond measure.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Sharp sounds of air being torn apart rang out one after another.
Immediately afterward, puppet after puppet appeared.
As far as the eye could see, there were more than a hundred of them, densely packed and vaguely outlined.
Every puppet possessed an enormous body, shrouded in deathly stillness, with hollow eyes that made one's scalp tingle with eerie dread.
Even more horrifyingly, all hundred-plus puppets radiated the aura of Grand Luo Golden Immortals.
This was precisely the Dao cultivated by Corpse Puppet Daoist!
He refined corpses into puppets, controlled them, and had them fight in his stead.
That was how Corpse Puppet Daoist had earned his name!
Seeing this, Chen Ku frowned slightly.
Facing the approach of over a hundred Grand Luo Golden Immortal puppets, even he found it rather troublesome.
After all, these puppets were already dead things. They knew no pain and feared no death.
Only by utterly destroying them could he truly resolve the matter.
"Bitter..."
"Looks like I'm still being forced to use more of my methods."
Chen Ku let out a low sigh.
Then, without hesitation, a thought crossed his mind, and the Six Roots Pure Bamboo immediately flew forth.
In an instant, dim emerald light surged. The Six Roots Pure Bamboo erupted with endless divine radiance, illuminating the cosmos as its divine might rolled forth in vast waves.
The aura of a Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure circulated around it, complementing Chen Ku's own presence.
This was the first time he had used this natal companion spiritual treasure!
Rumble!
The Six Roots Pure Bamboo displayed its might, carrying immense force and ruthless dominance. The heavens rumbled, deafeningly loud.
Bang!
Bang!
Wherever the Six Roots Pure Bamboo passed, Grand Luo Golden Immortal-level puppets exploded one after another, turning into severed limbs and scattered flesh that rained into the Outer Chaos Domain.
At the same time, Chen Ku's physical body gleamed brilliantly, his qi and blood surging as they swept back toward the heavens!
His unparalleled physical strength was fully revealed, making Corpse Puppet Daoist feel as though he were facing a powerful member of the Witch Clan.
He shook the heavens and earth!
He churned seas and uprooted mountains!
Under such terrifying force, the Six Roots Pure Bamboo became even more formidable.
Once unleashed, a puppet would explode. There was no suspense whatsoever!
Instant kill!
An unquestionable instant kill!
Chen Ku was savage and unstoppable, like a god of slaughter incarnate, striking terror into the heart.
On the other side, Corpse Puppet Daoist's eyes lit up when he saw Chen Ku bring out his natal companion spiritual treasure.
"Gasp... Another Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure?!"
"Just how much does this brat have in reserve?"
Corpse Puppet Daoist knew very well that this Six Roots Pure Bamboo had not been acquired by Chen Ku beneath the Treasure Distribution Rock.
In other words, it had originally been part of Chen Ku's own foundation.
In an instant, Corpse Puppet Daoist's eyes burned with greed, his face filled with covetousness.
Chen Ku's foundation was simply too deep—deeper even than his own as a quasi-sage expert!
At that thought, Corpse Puppet Daoist became even more determined to capture Chen Ku, kill him, and seize his treasures.
However, he also knew that with the Six Roots Pure Bamboo in hand, relying on these Grand Luo-level puppets was no longer enough.
On the contrary, if this continued, he would only waste the puppets he had painstakingly refined!
After pondering for a moment, Corpse Puppet Daoist's gaze sharpened, as though he had made some decision.
"Quasi-sage puppet, appear!"
At Corpse Puppet Daoist's command.
The remaining Grand Luo puppets immediately vanished, returning to Corpse Puppet Daoist's sea of consciousness.
But in their place, a puppet with an even larger body and even denser deathly aura appeared.
The aura it emitted had also reached the even more terrifying quasi-sage level.
Without question, this was a quasi-sage-level puppet, and one of Corpse Puppet Daoist's trump cards.
At this moment, Corpse Puppet Daoist could not help but feel stifled and depressed.
To deal with a mere Grand Luo Golden Immortal, he had actually been forced to reveal such a trump card.
Pathetic!
Truly pathetic!
But upon second thought, as long as he could suppress Chen Ku and seize all of his opportunities, it would still be worth it.
Without further thought, Corpse Puppet Daoist formed hand seals. The quasi-sage puppet immediately erupted, launching another astonishing assault.
Although it was only a single quasi-sage puppet, its momentum completely surpassed that of all the previous Grand Luo puppets combined.
At the same time, Chen Ku was left somewhat dumbfounded.
"Again?!"
"Damn it, why is this old ghost so freakish?"
"Bitter... too bitter..."
Chen Ku's expression fell as he muttered under his breath.
After a few words of Bitter Dao, the Primal Chaos Sutra began to circulate, gradually restoring the strength Chen Ku had expended earlier.
Then, he dismissed all distracting thoughts and fixed his gaze on the quasi-sage puppet.
"Hehe, it may be freakish."
"But a quasi-sage-level puppet is rare indeed. This is a precious treasure."
"If I can snatch it away..."
As he thought this, Chen Ku's eyes revealed a hint of what could only be called "sinister" intent.
Then, he stopped thinking and attacked directly.
"Buddha's Palm Paradise!"
"Law of the Heavenly Dao!"
Since he had chosen to make a move, Chen Ku naturally would not continue concealing his abilities.
First, Chen Ku unleashed the great divine ability known as Buddha's Palm Paradise.
Second, he deliberately mobilized the Law of the Heavenly Dao that he had comprehended earlier and infused it into the great divine ability of Buddha's Palm Paradise.
With the law infused into it, the divine ability's power suddenly soared, its aura becoming vast and mighty.
All around them, countless cosmic stars stirred, rumbling endlessly as though they were about to collapse.
Great power poured down like divine peaks descending from the Ninth Heaven, giving even Corpse Puppet Daoist a scalp-numbing sense of alarm.
Even quasi-sage experts could not contend with the power of the Law of the Heavenly Dao.
Then, Buddha's Palm Paradise descended, enveloping the quasi-sage puppet in one stroke, intending to take it away directly.
Corpse Puppet Daoist's expression changed drastically in an instant!
"How dare you?!"
With an angry roar, his mana surged even more fiercely as he desperately suppressed the quasi-sage puppet, trying to keep it.
However, Chen Ku suddenly shook his palm, and chains of Order God Chains stretched across the void, binding the quasi-sage puppet.
Clang!
Amid a metallic crash that seemed to pierce gold and split stone.
The next moment, the quasi-sage puppet broke free of Corpse Puppet Daoist's control and flew helplessly toward Chen Ku.
Corpse Puppet Daoist stood frozen as though struck by lightning!
A moment later, his face suddenly flushed red.
"You... Ah..."
He immediately spat out a mouthful of old blood, staining the chaotic cosmos.
Numb!
Completely numb!
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